Show CUT TO PIECES I A Deserter from Fort Douglas t Meets Terrible Fate Instantly Killed Train by a Railroad I On Tuesday afternoon one of those occurrences which while fortunately fortu-nately infrequent here are so common com-mon in railroad experience took place on the Utah Central A short time after 4 oclock word was telegraphed tele-graphed to the railroad ofhce in this city that two tramps had been run over by the regular northbound Utah Central passenger near Woods Cross A few minutes later a special spe-cial train with Supt John Sharp and Drs Richards had started for the scene and at 62o returnee with the victims of the accident One was lifeless death having ensued en-sued instantaneously The other was laid onL unable t mnvp mel said ho had been struck in the baThe ba-The details as far a can be learned are a follows John G Quinn of Philadelphia and Frank Owen of Wilkesburg Pa with another person per-son were soldiers at Fort Douglas and on Monday they deserted Yesterday Yes-terday morning all boarded the I train going north but were put off just after the train got started They then began to tramp northward their destination destina-tion it is said being Helena What become of the third party i unknown un-known but he is supposed to have continued his journey leaving Quinn and Owen behind These two were drunk in the morning and doubtless kept drinking and getting worse a they progressed northward Just before arriving at Woods Cross they sat down on the track Owen probably fell asleep for he lay right across or nearly across it when the train came in sight Quinn was sitting on the track Quinn though drunk began trying to pull Owen off and a the engineer saw this he shut off steam and began ringing the bell thinking a had often Been the case before they would get off But Owen did not arouse and Quinn was too drunk pull him off and it was not until too late to save them that the engineer saw they could not escape So the engine passed over Owen The exact position of the body at tho time can not be told but it must have been in just such a position a would cut and bruise him most The back of his head was crushed in his 1 neck was broken both shoulders I and elbows were dislocated and the bones stuck out the right leg was dislocated the left leg near the knee was literally cut clean off a though it had been haggled with a I dull knife and but for a small piece of skin on one side would have been completely severed he had a deep gash in the left side of his body near the hip bone and in fact he was crushed bruised and broken in almost every conceivable way and in every possible place Death must have resulted instantaneously he could have suffered no pain and indeed never knew what struck him Quinn said he had been struck in the back and was unable to move and groaned frightfully every time he was lifted The sexton was present a few minutes after the train arrived and took the body of Owen to his office whence it will b interred Quinn who had nearly recovered from his drunk by the time this city was reached had not been examined amined W I placed carefully in a hack and directed to be sent to St Marks Hospital but it being learned on the arrival of the train that he was a deserter he was sent straight to Fort Douglas in care of Officer Wm Calder The post surgeon asked him where he was hurt and he complained that his back was broken They then commenced to strip him when he screamed with pain Having taken off enough clothing to admit of an examination the post surgeon looked over him and found that he was totally unhurt He will be held to answer for desertion Quinn said ho intended to report his back broken in the hope he would thus escape punishment The affair was the occasion of much talk all over the city last evening As definite details of the affair tained a today can will doubtless be ascer |